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Need-to-Know
- IBM released its open-source Granite 4 Mamba-Transformer models, delivering higher efficiency and lower memory usage.
- A 13-year-old Florida student was arrested after asking ChatGPT how to kill a friend, triggering an AI-based school safety alert.
- OpenAI will debut Agent Builder at DevDay — a visual, drag-and-drop tool for creating and deploying AI-powered workflow automations.
- Salesforce introduced new AI data-governance features and Agentforce Vibes, a coding assistant to boost enterprise-level security and productivity.
- Perplexity made its Comet AI browser free globally and added a background assistant for Max subscribers.
- Google DeepMind unveiled CodeMender, which automatically detects, patches, and rewrites insecure code.
- Google launched an AI bug-bounty program offering up to $30 K for finding rogue AI behaviors.
- Adobe forecasts U.S. online holiday sales to reach $253.4 B in 2025, with AI-assisted shopping traffic up 520 % YoY.
- Sam Altman confirmed there are no ads in ChatGPT Pulse yet — but personalized ads remain on the table.
- Taylor Swift faced fan backlash after promotional videos appeared AI-generated, ironic given her prior criticism of AI misuse.
- Mattel partnered with OpenAI Sora 2 to speed up toy design using AI-driven video generation.
- Google expanded its no-code app builder Opal to 15 new countries, empowering non-technical creators.
- IBM and Anthropic formed a partnership to integrate Claude into IBM software and advance enterprise AI agents.
- Google released the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, enabling AI to browse, click, and type like humans without APIs.
- Anthropic launched Petri, an open-source auditing tool that uses AI agents to detect risky model behavior.
- Google opened Gemini CLI Extensions, letting developers add third-party tools and features to its command-line AI suite.
- 1Password + Browserbase introduced Secure Agentic Autofill so AI agents can use credentials safely without exposure.
- Prosecutors cited a ChatGPT-generated image of a burning city as intent evidence in the California Palisades wildfire case.
- Zendesk rolled out an autonomous AI support agent said to resolve 80 % of customer issues without human help.
- CoreWeave launched a serverless RL platform that auto-allocates GPUs and bills by use, lowering custom-agent costs.
- Microsoft + Harvard Medical School will enhance Copilot’s health responses while reducing reliance on OpenAI.
- Reflection AI raised $2 B to build an open U.S. AI lab, positioning itself as a home-grown challenger to DeepSeek.
- Figma + Google integrated Gemini AI into Figma’s design tools, bringing AI creation to 13 M designers.
- Knapsack raised $10 M to launch an AI collaboration hub uniting design and engineering while keeping brand consistency.
- OpenAI expanded ChatGPT Go to 16 Asian markets, intensifying its low-cost rivalry with Google.
Weekly AI Launches
- Glue debuted an agentic-team-chat app where humans and AIs collaborate to turn talk into action.
- Plus AI released a Presentations API to embed AI-generated PPTX slides directly in applications.
- shadcn/ui team shipped CLI 3.0, upgrading its command-line tool for adding UI components.
- LangLime launched as a Duolingo-style app that teaches through real-world text translations.
- Scaloom added Subreddit Multi-Posting to publish once across subreddits with automated AI engagement.
- PromptSignal introduced a tracker that monitors brand rank inside AI answers and gives weekly visibility tips.
- TimeFly Dev launched a tool that logs all coding activity to reveal productivity insights.
- Fruitful rolled out a site-monitor that alerts you to competitor pricing, launches, and hiring shifts.
- TrueWellness unveiled an adaptive agent that learns from body data to deliver real-time health advice.
- Orchestra debuted a communication-first workflow hub integrating task tracking with AI agents.
- Extrovert launched a monitor that finds key social posts so teams can engage customers authentically.
- Hands Off released a private desktop app that detects and warns nail-biting or skin-picking via motion alerts.
- PromptCompose introduced a platform for managing and A/B-testing AI prompts across teams.
- QA.tech launched a “fleet of QA agents” providing automated test coverage and inline debugging context.
- Retool added AI AppGen to build secure, production-ready apps from natural-language prompts.
- The Brief launched as an “AI agency in your browser,” automating full marketing campaigns end-to-end.
- Prohost AI released an assistant automating vacation-rental tasks — guest messaging, cleaning, upsells.
- Tight Studio launched a demo-creation tool with AI zooms, narration, and auto-camera framing.
- ElevenLabs open-sourced a UI library on shadcn/ui for rapidly building voice-AI experiences.
- Plural introduced a DevOps AI platform that automates Kubernetes cluster management.
